Santo Domingo (EFE).- The XXVIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government officially begins in the city of Santo Domingo, with an act held in the colonial fortress of Ozama, the first permanent military structure in America.
The Ibero-American leaders were received one by one by the President of the Dominican Republic, the host country, Luis Abinader, his wife, First Lady Raquel Arbaje, and the Ibero-American Secretary General, Chilean Andrés Allamand.
“This will be a summit dedicated to the people and aimed at having concrete results,” said Allamand, the first to speak at the inaugural act of the regional meeting, which will have its main day tomorrow with the holding of the plenary sessions.
This implies, Allamand stated in his speech, “orienting the activity associated with this meeting towards obtaining concrete results that have a positive impact on the quality of life of Ibero-Americans.”
To achieve this, three decisive instruments to fulfill rights and strengthen the Ibero-American Community will be submitted to the countries for their consideration: the Ibero-American Environmental Charter, the Food Security Strategy and the Charter of Digital Principles and Rights, specified the Ibero-American Secretary General.
Continuity in the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit
For his part, Abinader recalled that by assuming the celebration of the Summit “we proposed to continue the purposes and guidelines” of the previous ones “with a view to the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.”
He underlined the existing unity between the countries of the Ibero-American community “not only because of languages, history or geography. There are more ties that unite us than those that separate us.
“Divine providence placed the Dominicans in the center of the continent, the link between Europe and the New World. Today, at a crucial moment for humanity, when we are facing a change of times, paradigms that we took for granted, more than ever it is necessary to look for a possible utopia”, he said.
The Dominican president recalled that “we face common challenges that require collective responses. The commitment to people, to people and growth, forces us to go beyond the limits of rhetoric”.